Re: GNU Emacs: Client/Server

[Jan D.]

> Hello,
>  The fact that "emacsclient" does not build on MS Windows platform
>  (correct me if I am wrong), we end up depending on "gnuserv"
>  functionality. This is *NOT* part of distribution and therefore makes 
> it
>  difficult to keep update with changes in "gnuserv" (if there are any,
>  recently).
>
>  I was toying with the idea of making the GNU Emacs behave as a client 
> or
>  server through command line options or Elisp functions.

Are you proposing something like mozilla or xmms?  Where
% mozilla -remote ...

will connect to an already running mozilla process and send the command
to that process.  Or like xmms (a music player), where
% xmms file

will start playing file on an already running xmms process if one 
exists.

Kind of integrating emacsclient in the emacs binary so that
% emacs -remote ...
is basically the same as
% emacsclient ...

        Jan D.